"His wife, the patients at the hospital (restistance agents in the 'world war' he hoped to launch), his undecided affair with Catherine Austen—these became as fragmentary as the faces of Elizabeth Taylor and Sigmund Freud on the advertising hoardings, as unreal as the war the film companies had restarted in Vietnam."

—from J. G. Ballard's "The Atrocity Exhibition" (as collected in his 1978 "The Best Short Stories of ... ")
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